[rdiff-backup-users] Mozy Online Back-Up Problems

2009-08-25 Thread infomax467
I installed MOZY FREE Backup software on my computer by following their instructions. After installation, my computer kept freezing and then I got the Windows Blue Screen of Death! Basically, MOZY FREE Backup CRASHED my computer. I could not even do a system restore. I had to restore my

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Mozy Online Back-Up Problems

2009-08-25 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 05:11:46PM -0400, infomax467 wrote: Basically, MOZY FREE Backup CRASHED my computer. [...] Maybe that's how they get you; then they tell you have to purchase one of their plans??? FYI: I have 2GB of RAM and a 2.0 GHz AMD processor and it still CRASHED it! It's

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] unable to recover from interrupted backup

2009-08-25 Thread Dominic Raferd
Ben Tucker wrote: I had a machine fail in the midst of backing up a couple weeks ago and ever since I have been unable to get it to successfully backup. rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir runs without error, but then running the actual backup command results in an exception. I'm running 1.2.8

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] A bug in rdiff-backup with changing files

2009-08-25 Thread Dominic Raferd
Josh Nisly wrote: One of my clients encountered an interesting bug in rdiff-backup - under certain conditions, if a file changes while it is being backed up, rdiff-backup throws an unhandled exception... I can't help on the main problem, but as a workaround (and a better approach anyway),

[rdiff-backup-users] Bad index order

2009-08-25 Thread Daniel Roth
Hi! I'm new to rdiff-backup. I'm using it under Windows (Vista). The first time I tried to backup my harddrive it gives me an error, which possibly originates from special characters I like to use. Please have a look: Exception 'Bad index order: ('Pictures', '2006', '20060326-0401

[rdiff-backup-users] Quick question - Can rdiff (or anything else) do this?

2009-08-25 Thread Edward Harvey
I have some large files, such as hard drive images for virtual machines, which will change a few blocks at a time but most of the file remains unchanged, and I would like to backup efficiently. Needless to say it is bad to send the whole file across every time. I would like a diff-like program

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Quick question - Can rdiff (or anything else) do this?

2009-08-25 Thread Billy Crook
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 17:17, Edward Harveyedward.har...@lyricsemiconductor.com wrote: Can rdiff (or anything that anyone knows of) do this? storebackup can http://www.nongnu.org/storebackup/ ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] A bug in rdiff-backup with changing files

2009-08-25 Thread Dominic Raferd
Josh Nisly wrote: One of my clients encountered an interesting bug in rdiff-backup - under certain conditions, if a file changes while it is being backed up, rdiff-backup throws an unhandled exception... I can't help on the main problem, but as a workaround (and a better approach anyway),

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] unable to recover from interrupted backup

2009-08-25 Thread Dominic Raferd
Ben Tucker wrote: I had a machine fail in the midst of backing up a couple weeks ago and ever since I have been unable to get it to successfully backup. rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir runs without error, but then running the actual backup command results in an exception. I'm running 1.2.8